• British Bishop Richard Williamson has been convicted and fined for denying the Holocaust in a 2008 interview on Swedish television. [AP]
• Mel Brooks will get his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame later this month. [On the Red Carpet]
• Philip Barak, a 75-year-old race-car driver, said he didn’t start winning until he painted his car blue and white. [Jewish Chronicle]
• Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have proven that the “pleasantness” of odors is determined by molecular structure, which doesn’t help explain why some people salivate over a whiff of gefilte fish, while others run from the room. [WI]
• National Geographic recommends the Jewish Mob walking tour at NYC’s new Museum of the American Gangster. We suggest you check out Tablet’s history of the Israeli mafia. [NG]
Hadara Graubart was formerly a writer and editor for Tablet Magazine.